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Stephen Downes

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The author sent me a nice note and this, a link to his most recent paper on the semantic web, which I pass along. The underlying premise is that a web page isn't an appropriate medium for metadata - a web page should be thought of, at best, as a 'snapshot' of an information resource. But I don't think that the answer to this is the closed web, as the author seems to imply in places. Rather, what it requires is a rethinking of our understanding of online resources, moving away from the document metaphor entirely, and thinking instead in terms of data feeds.

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